2 Keys to Find the Time to Study

If you feel like you can't find the time to study consistently, or you struggle sticking with

your daily study routine, in this video, I'm going to give you two simple steps to solve that

for good. Let's start with a quote from the book Atomic Habits that was written by James Clear

He says, you do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems

So, of course, anyone who starts the CPA exam process, their goal is to pass the CPA exams

but we also know from the published pass rates that only about 50% of candidates pass their exams

and some large percentage of all CPA candidates eventually give up and never finish their

CPA at all. Now everyone knows that you're supposed to stay consistent, you're supposed to study every day

So where does this always go wrong? And typically what you'll hear is someone that says life gets in the way and life does get in the way

People are busy. If you're working full-time, it's incredibly hard to find four to five hours a day to sit down and study

Now, if your life becomes you wake up, you go to work, then you study, then you go to sleep

and then you do it over and over again for months, life quickly becomes pretty miserable

In fact, going back to the book, Atomic Habits, James Clear talks about how if achieving your goals requires huge amounts of willpower

that goes against your natural tendencies and you're always fighting yourself to try and accomplish

the steps that lead to your goals. You will not follow through. So the question is, how do you make

your daily study routine doable How do you fit your study routine into your normal daily life so that you don have to fight yourself every day to make time for it

So let's go back to that quote one more time. You do not rise to the level of your goals

You fall to the level of your systems. Or we could say you fall to the level of your daily routine

Okay, so how do we do this? So the easiest way to make your daily study sessions easier to accomplish, make them

easier to fit into your actual daily routine is to make them shorter. So what we teach our clients to do

is to have a two-hour main study session. And on workdays, that's all you do with your review

course. So you do a two-hour study session. You're following our study framework. And you do it in the

morning so that your biggest task, your biggest mental hurdle, it's done out of the way. You don't

have to think about it and dread it all day long. For example, the main

study strategy, we teach our clients for moving through new lessons, we call planting the seeds

This is where you learn how to quickly identify the most tested parts of any lesson and you

learn it backwards, which means learning it in the same context that you'll actually see it on

test day. And this can be done with any review course once you know how to do it. When you know

how to study like this, you really can get more done in two hours than somebody studying four to five

hours the normal way. Now if you want more info on how to actually do this and our other strategies

then we have a free strategic CPA studying workshop that you can attend. It's a webinar. It's only at

certain times There should be a link below this video or a button below this video You can click on to sign up for one of those upcoming sessions So at the beginning I said I give you two ways to do this That was the first way

A two-hour main study session, you lock it in in the morning

You make it a morning ritual. So it is done. You do it when your brain is fresh

You're not trying to study for four hours. After work, when your brain is already fried, and you can't even focus on the video lecture

It just works so much better in every way to do it in the morning

So that's step number one. Step number two is then throughout the rest of your day, you continue to study from your phone using study supplements

Now, we all get these screen time reports, which are shocking to say the least

You know, you think, how did I find three hours a day to goof around on my phone

So what I'm talking about is simply taking advantage of all that time

Even the busiest people, all of us, we have these smartphones we carry around, and we look at

them up to 100 times an hour. So even taking a portion of those little mini sessions on your phone, you replace all your

time waster time on TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, whatever your favorite time waster apps are

You replace that with reading review notes, taking quizzes. Whenever you're in your car, you listen to audio notes

When you're preparing meals, when you're just lounging around the house, you could be

listening to audio notes in the background. Now, I don't just recommend this because we happen to sell the exact study supplements I am talking about

So study after study, like this one, proves that when you're trying to learn a new topic or a new subject, whatever it is

when you study in small chunks multiple times a day you recalling the information you trying to learn multiple times a day It is dramatically more effective for your long learning and your long retention

than one longer study period done just once a day. Now, for our purposes, it just so happens that it's also a lot easier to do it this way

I think you would agree that two hours a day is twice as easy as trying to sit down for

four or five hours a day. And then you make up the rest of the time by doing the things you're already doing

You're already driving your car places. You're already looking at your phone multiple hours a day

You simply fit in the rest of your study time in all those little five to ten minute chunks

The big advantage is you have put in four to five hours by the time you're done with work

for the day and you take the evenings off. You get to still do the things that you would normally do so that you don't go crazy

through this process. That alone makes this process much more doable. It makes it much more motivating

but most of all, it just makes it much more likely that you'll actually stick to it. So to recap

you do the two-hour main study session with your current review course. It doesn't matter what

review course you're currently using. You do two hours in the morning. If you want more info on how

we teach our clients to study, you can sign up for one of those free strategic study workshops

There should be a link below the video or a button below the video. So you do the two hours in the morning with your review course

Then you take study supplements and you keep studying throughout the rest of your day

This way, by the time you're done with work, you've put in four to five hours, maybe even more, of quality study time

so that you can take the evenings off so that you don't go crazy through this process